Sharon Osbourne believes someone “groomed” her for her exit from “The Talk.”
Four years after her unofficial exit from… HadithSharon Osbourne’s late husband is calling out CBS from beyond the grave.
In Ozzy Osbourne’s posthumous memoir Last ritesavailable now after the Black Sabbath rocker died aged 76 in July, claimed they had “fired Sharon” from the show following an on-air argument with her co-hosts about her boyfriend Piers Morgan.
“The person I convinced was the one who set her up — and I won’t name names, because the last thing I want to do is bring up all this crap again — he knew what they were doing, I think,” Ozzie wrote, according to his post. Entertainment Weekly. “And Sharon, when she feels trapped, she will go out and fight.”
After Sharon fought with Sheryl Underwood over Morgan’s comments about Meghan Markle, which were deemed racist, CBS launched an investigation into the exchange and pulled the plug on the show before Sharon eventually left her seat weeks later.
“They fired Sharon,” Ozzie wrote. “Just a few weeks ago, when Sharon was in hospital with Covid, the same people went to Instagram to say ‘ma’am, we love you’. What a bunch of phonies.”
Sheryl Underwood, Carrie Ann Inaba, Sharon Osbourne, Sarah Gilbert, and Eve on ‘The Talk’ August 2, 2019
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Ozzy added that “the worst part” is that people think Sharon is racist because of her association with Morgan. “I can tell you without a doubt, my wife is not a racist. This is against everything I have ever stood for. And anyone who has spent more than five seconds with her knows that,” he wrote.
“The people I worked with on that show knew that,” Ozzy added. “It was a mistake to be attached to that label. Because you can never get a gig anywhere on TV just because that’s what people think of you. The game is over. They knew it when they dropped it.”
Although Sharon “was devastated for a long time,” Ozzy said he admired the way she “let it go and never talked about it again.”
“She’s an amazing woman, my wife,” Ozzy added. “As for HadithPoetic justice was finally done. “It’s been cancelled.”
Hadith It announced last November that it was ending its 15-season run, airing its finale after 2,993 episodes the following month. The daytime talk show was developed by Sarah Gilbert and premiered in 2010 with her and Osbourne on the original panel of co-hosts.